NFL players investing in 12-year-old girl’s lemonade business

Posted by Michael David Smith on July 7, 2017, 6:00 AM EDT

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Mikaila Ulmer is a 12-year-old girl with a lemonade business, and it’s a whole lot bigger than a neighborhood lemonade stand.

Ulmer started selling lemonade sweetened with honey after her great-grandmother gave her a family recipe from the 1940s, and it proved so popular that she got deals to sell it at several stores. Now a number of NFL players have decided to invest.

Foster told the Houston Chronicle the group of players was looking for an investment opportunity that could help a promising entrepreneur like Ulmer, and help a good cause, as Ulmer is invested in fighting colony collapse disorder, which has devastated bee populations.

“Of course, any time you invest in anything you look at if it’s going to be profitable,” Foster said. “We look for companies that match our main focus of developing a good product, but are also good people and do it for the right reasons. It’s more than about money to us. We believe that investing in small black businesses is extremely important.”

With NFL money and a family recipe, Me & The Bees Lemonade plans to get a whole lot bigger.

Great for this girl to get this opportunity, but I love the fact in this day and age it’s perfectly fine for them to “invest in small black business ” because youknow, if they said any other color they would have to be public roasted and shamed for being racist.

Some say that bee group collapse syndrome is the canary in the global warming coal mine. Kind of impressive that a 12 year old has the capacity to even want to understand this. Heck, when I was her age, I would have been pointing the finger at Winnie the Pooh.

Some liberal will cite some arcane regulation that prohibits this girl from running an unlicensed lemonade stand.
I’m glad that she is learning about capitalism, in real life, not what the fake news networks and socialist newspapers tell people about capitalism.

I wonder if usual sentiment will prevail here about the big money rich owners using their poor employees for ill gotten gains. But i am sure this young lady will soon find out what it means to have investors in her business.

Some liberal will cite some arcane regulation that prohibits this girl from running an unlicensed lemonade stand.
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Why do so many republicans still go on and on about liberals even after they won the election? You’ve got 4 years of Trump to look forward to…..so please stop yammering about liberals in every comment section. You just sound bitter and angry.

“it’s perfectly fine for them “to invest in small black businesses” because youknow, if they said any other color they would have to be publicly roasted and shamed as being racist.”

Many protected classes contain a significant portion of white people, particularly women and the disabled. There are many individuals and groups that focus on investing in businesses owned by classes that include white people. No one is roasting or shaming those investors.

I think it’s great what these players are doing, but I have to wonder what would be said if a group of white players said they were trying to invest in “white businesses”. I guess I just wish everything didn’t have to be labeled by race

Many protected classes contain a significant portion of white people, particularly women and the disabled. There are many individuals and groups that focus on investing in businesses owned by classes that include white people. No one is roasting or shaming those investors.

Investors will invest for one reason – you guessed it … to make money. At the end of the day they want one thing, a return on their investment. They do not come out and publicly say they are investing in only one class of people. Last time I checked we are all the same on the inside, these pro athletes will be the first to bitch about equality and turn right around and say dumb stuff like this.

Progressives are scrambling to invent, er, uncover an explanation that this somehow hurts the lower and middle class.

If the bees die out it doesn’t hurt people. It will kill us. Well a large amount anyway. This young lady has her head on straight. Personally I think this is a great investment for these players. Lets be honest, while 800,000 Isn’t that much split among these players.

Why can’t is just be a “business?” If we continue to separate ourselves out, there will never be equality because we aren’t on the same page in the first place.
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..you “championed” “-seperating yourselves out”
for 50 years in this country….are you ready for equality?
Then you should start by seeking forgiveness.

emmonsh says:
Jul 7, 2017 10:52 AM
its just like try and put a network on tv called white entertainment tv. The black reverands that are crooked as hell and racist will make it seem like the undoing of society
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This is precisely the type of ignorance/deflection you get when driven by hate. I know of several programs, clubs and affiliations that are called “white” they are just labeled as Italian, Irish, German or other ethnicities. “Black” is what we have to encompass a broad range of West African ethnicities that became the melting pot and the tragedy of the slave trade.

Some liberal will cite some arcane regulation that prohibits this girl from running an unlicensed lemonade stand.
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Why do so many republicans still go on and on about liberals even after they won the election? You’ve got 4 years of Trump to look forward to…..so please stop yammering about liberals in every comment section. You just sound bitter and angry.
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Probably because so many liberals haven’t let the lost go. They believe the fake news about the Russians or keep bringing up they won the popular vote, like that even matters. Just go follow him on twitter which I am sure you already do, nothing but salty arse liberals on there crying like babies, so please save it

dryzzt23 says:
Jul 7, 2017 8:04 AM
Some liberal will cite some arcane regulation that prohibits this girl from running an unlicensed lemonade stand.
I’m glad that she is learning about capitalism, in real life, not what the fake news networks and socialist newspapers tell people about capitalism.
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It is so sad that in a Football BB, always a politcal comment that is so stupid and binary in thought. Libs and Dems and Trumpsters, etc. You are so right though on one thing… Capitalism!

Nestle and CocaCola can take the money out of their petty cash drawer and squash this company like a bug. That is the reality, but not my hope. It would be nice for the little man (or girl) to make a lasting company.

A great story about achievement,family, hard work and NFL players helping to pull someone else up. Good luck and I’ll be sure to look for the product in the Stores.

Unfortunately I don’t think these players Jersey sales will go through roof for doing the right thing and promoting self achievement/hard work and making money to help them and future small business owners.

Some liberal will cite some arcane regulation that prohibits this girl from running an unlicensed lemonade stand.
I’m glad that she is learning about capitalism, in real life, not what the fake news networks and socialist newspapers tell people about capitalism.
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Some liberal??? I would venture to say that possibly every single one of these investors is a progressive registered Democrat. You see, beside making money, Democrats also care about others … the economically disadvantaged, the downtrodden, the disenfranchised, the homeless. Reactionary Republicans on the other hand selfishly only care about themselves.

alwaysomethingwrong says:
Jul 7, 2017 7:13 AM
Great for this girl to get this opportunity, but I love the fact in this day and age it’s perfectly fine for them to “invest in small black business ” because youknow, if they said any other color they would have to be public roasted and shamed for being racist

Couldn’t have said it any better. I knew when I opened this article this was going to be a small black business if it’s getting any tabloids. I am happy that this girl is going to be a profit machine and not waste her time going to college and leave with insurmountable amount of debt though

Nice story. Not sure how this had to turn so political to so many people posting here.

But, are the bees truly still in trouble? You find some conflicting info when you search on the internet, and I am never sure exactly which “news” source may be correct (and not intending to turn that political, just pointing out that it is difficult to get news as opposed to opinions these days).